How quickly would you expect a good horse to sell in this market?

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Hours, days, weeks or months? :D

I am just wondering how long you would have a horse up for sale for, before you might start worrying it wouldn't sell/consider dropping the price?

Thoughts? :)
 
The little horse in my sig was seen by someone looking for a horse at a competition on Bank Holiday Monday. They visited her on the Thursday and again on the Tuesday. She was vetted the next Thursday and delivered on the Friday.

This was word of mouth. She is extremely eyecatching, has a good past affiliated record (won an Intro on her dressage), has represented local RC in SJ teams, ODE and dressage and was 2nd Individual in the dressage at the Nationals last year.

Being the little horse she is I would have kept her for months had the right person not come along. Although it was word of mouth we had a had a couple of people who said they were interested to see her competing and then didn't turn up but as she is the sort of horse that people come over and ask to buy I wasn't worried.
 
I just sold my lovely gelding. He was fab but it took 4 weeks to sell him. I only had a few phone calls, but when someone finally came to try him they loved him, vetted him and he was in his new home a week later. There seem to be very few buyers about and the phone calls I had were from people who were genuine but novicey. Hang in there and the right person with the right home will find you.
 
Sorry to hijack thread, but would you say childrens ponies tend to take longer to sell than competetion horses? Ie safe all rounders for kids. I have one im selling soon and am interested as to how long I can expect it to take!
 
I'm finding that any good horses tend to sell the day before I go to see them............. :rolleyes:

Thoroughly expecting a call today to say the one I'm seeing tomorrow has already sold.
 
It really depends. We have had 2 for sale on our yard - 1 has gone within 3 days (being vetted tomorrow, advertised Fri, was viewed on Sat, again by the same people on Sun and deposit paid) and her sister's horse has been viewed by 8 people and not sold, been for sale for 5 weeks now - easy horse but most that have come to try him couldn't ride him, which was really strange.
 
IMO the good allrounder PC ponies, priced right will always sell. It is the larger horses that are hanging around. If a horse has a good comp record and easy to do and priced right then they will sell, but it seems that anything that needs any 'work' - even if that is just ready to go and compete but hasn't made it into the start box for one reason or another - is having trouble to sell at any reasonable price. It is a buyers market.
 
We've had ours for sale since before Xmas, one sold within a week, the other is still for sale, not desperate to sale but only had one person look- but he is an unbroken 6 year old, who bucks like mad :O (and are quite honest about this to people who ring up, so are planning on snending him away to be broken in the summer)
 
hmmm i dont think this forum likes me ;)

Was meant to add on the end (but didin't for some reason and won't let me change it, lol)

I think a 'good' horse would sell within weeks/ days, depending on how good (e.g. competiton record) and of course price (which seems to have come down in recent times...). But, nice/ good ones I've seen advertised don't stay advertised very long.
 
We have just started to take in sales liveries, had our first client 2 weeks ago, we collected the horse on the monday advertised on the thursday after having the horse for a few days so the ad was correct, filtered out the time wasters and sold him that weekend they had a second viewing on tuesday vetted thursday collected sat. Perfect home for the horse and everyone happy !!!!
 
Divasmum said:
I think even good horses are taking several weeks to sell on average and even then not at the big prices we saw a couple of years ago.
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You do seem to be able to get more for you money than you could when I was last looking 3 years ago. But then I got myself a super bargain then, not sure I can be that lucky again! ;)
 
I would say it all depends on how cheap they are. I bought Lily through word of mouth before she was advertised and I have no doubt at all that she would have gone in a matter of hours if she had been advertised. She might be crabby and awkward but she's massively better already, I'd say another months work and she'll be worth double what I paid for her.
 
Katt said:
I'm finding that any good horses tend to sell the day before I go to see them............. :rolleyes:

Thoroughly expecting a call today to say the one I'm seeing tomorrow has already sold.
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Oh, poor you. That happened to me so many times when I was looking for my last girl. It all worked out right in the end though; I found the horse of my dreams :) Very sadly she is now broken, and a LOU claim, so now I am having to do the whole searching game again :(
 
jemima_too said:
The little horse in my sig was seen by someone looking for a horse at a competition on Bank Holiday Monday. They visited her on the Thursday and again on the Tuesday. She was vetted the next Thursday and delivered on the Friday.

This was word of mouth. She is extremely eyecatching, has a good past affiliated record (won an Intro on her dressage), has represented local RC in SJ teams, ODE and dressage and was 2nd Individual in the dressage at the Nationals last year.

Being the little horse she is I would have kept her for months had the right person not come along. Although it was word of mouth we had a had a couple of people who said they were interested to see her competing and then didn't turn up but as she is the sort of horse that people come over and ask to buy I wasn't worried.
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Well you can't beat a good grey mare ;) I'm not surprised someone snapped her up! :)
 
Weezy said:
It really depends. We have had 2 for sale on our yard - 1 has gone within 3 days (being vetted tomorrow, advertised Fri, was viewed on Sat, again by the same people on Sun and deposit paid) and her sister's horse has been viewed by 8 people and not sold, been for sale for 5 weeks now - easy horse but most that have come to try him couldn't ride him, which was really strange.
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Were they both competition horses of a similar price? I did like that gelding your friend is selling, but as you know, I only go for mares! ;)

A lot of the sellers I've spoken to are having too many novices inquiring, but I don't know if that's so much to do with the current market...
 
Puppy said:
Oh, poor you. That happened to me so many times when I was looking for my last girl. It all worked out right in the end though; I found the horse of my dreams :) Very sadly she is now broken, and a LOU claim, so now I am having to do the whole searching game again :(
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Well just a few hours to go now and I haven't had *that call* yet so you never know.......... might actually get to try one!
 
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